Let’s hope there are 5 more Democrats who will join us, because despite all of the good work we’ve done, there’s a lot more we could do if the Schumer Shutdown ends.

It’s time for them to get a backbone.

I fully support Senate committees getting to the bottom of this outrageous abuse of power and weaponization of the government.

Release the hostage. We’ll have that conversation.

We can’t make commitments or promises on the Covid subsidies because that’s not something that we can guarantee that there are the votes there to do.

Tom, let's come back to the basic premise: This is avoidable.

I’m all about getting it back open again. I think shutdowns are— nobody wins, and I think honestly, for the most part, they’re stupid.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to keep, to open up the government.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to open up the government. If that fails, we’ll give them the weekend to think about it. We’ll come back, vote again Monday.

As of this morning, critical federal employees including members of the military, Border Patrol agents and air traffic controllers are working without pay.

Democrats are well aware of the damage of a government shutdown.

Vote to open up the government, that issue goes away, right?

I don’t think shutdowns benefit anybody, least of all the American people.

if the government shuts down, it is on the Senate Democrats.

This Democrat shutdown is actually delaying progress on the issues that Democrats claim to be interested in.

We are just 14 hours away from a government shutdown. The House has passed a clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution to fund the government until November the 21st. The president is ready to sign it. Senate Democrats are standing in the…

We’ll probably set up some votes later in the week, but we’ll observe the Jewish holiday.

Hopefully, we’re going to pick up some more and eventually, we’ll get enough to pass this thing and keep the government open.

I am hoping there are enough reasonable Democrats over there.

The ball is in their court.

This decision, in my judgment at this point in time, is up to a handful of Democrats.

There needs to be oversight, there needs to be accountability, and there needs to be transparency into this decision making process

The secretary has a responsibility, an obligation, to restore and return the trust of the American people in the decision making process there

I’m obviously very concerned about that

I think that science ought to guide these discussions, these conversations and our decision making around our health